March 5, 2013 - Can Spring Be Near?

I love seeing the daffodils turning yellow. I feel like spring is right around the corner, and I hurry out to pick my very first bouquet of sunshine. Looking back, I find photographs of the first daffodils from the past five years (2010 is missing, but they are mentioned in a blog post), and the dates they first came into blossom.

From the top:

3/30 2009

3/04 2010 (photo missing)

3/15/2011

3/08/2012

3/05/2013

They were very late in 2009, and very early in 2010 (I noted they were in full bloom when we arrived home from Arizona). They seem to blossom whenever they feel like it, and pay no mind to what day of the month it is!

20 comments:

I love the way daffodils naturalize. We took another way home yesterday and drove by a pasture that has been just that -- pasture -- for as long as I can remember, and there in the middle of it were a couple of spots of bright yellow: daffodils. We find them like that all of the time, and wonder how they got there. They're just so dang cheerful and beautiful there in your house.

Dianefaith, about 25 years ago my Mother and I hiked through wheat fields and up a hillside to the site of her parents' old homestead. Daffodils, offspring of those planted so many years previous, were in glorious bloom. It was a lovely sight to behold!

They smell pretty, too! I'll be so happy when it warms enough to open up all the doors and windows and let the fresh, clean air in. I walked into the house after being outside all day, and it smelled like old orange peels. And dogs.

I love daffodils! I occasionally browse back through most of an entire season of your blog in the winter, when I'm feeling the gardening bug. When I see the daffodil posts, it is always a reminder that Spring is almost here. I like that you have the dates for the past five years, that's fun!

Megan, that's what I love about blogging. I look back each month to see what I did in previous years that might be helpful for the current year. It doesn't seem possible I've kept this blog going since 2008!